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American to direct a play in U.S.S.R.
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19871220
Author:Newhouse News Service
PRINCETON, N.J. Nagle Jackson, artistic director of the McCarter Theater in Princeton, will be the first American to direct a play in the Soviet Union.
Tass, the official Soviet news agency, announced that Jackson next spring will direct Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" at the Maxim Gorky Grand Drama Theater in Leningrad.
Georgi Tovstonogov, director of the Leningrad theater, chose the work.
The move is part of an exchange undertaken informally between the two theaters. The American and Russian directors met initially at a theater conference in New York.
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